linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality

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Message-ID: <20081005232053.GA19199@x200.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 6 Oct 2008 03:20:54 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 03:14:38AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Make process personality flags visible in /proc.  Since a process's
> personality is potentially sensitive (e.g. READ_IMPLIES_EXEC), make this
> file only readable by the process owner.

Applied to proc.git, and I moved show hook to fs/proc/base.c where most
of this irregular stuff lives.

> Please revert the prior patch against the "status" file -- this is the
> alternative.

Sure.
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